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Sleep Well, Siba and Saba by Nansubuga Nagadya Isdahl
Sleep Well, Siba and Saba by Nansubuga Nagadya Isdahl







Sleep Well, Siba and Saba by Nansubuga Nagadya Isdahl

The story is sweet, as Siba and Saba lose and find things, in and out of their dreams, while the text itself has a nice, gentle rhythm to it.

Sleep Well, Siba and Saba by Nansubuga Nagadya Isdahl

The cultural details here - both textual and visual - work to do just that. Until the night, that is, that they dreamed of a silver shilling and a school uniform - dreams with a significance for their future.īorn in the United States to Ugandan immigrant parents, first-time picture-book author Nansubuga Nagadya Isdahl wrote Sleep Well, Siba & Saba as a means of sharing the beauty of Uganda with her own daughter. Every day they would lose something, and every night, after their father sent them to bed with the words "Sula bulungi, Siba and Saba" (Sleep Well, Siba and Saba), they would dream of what they lost.

Sleep Well, Siba and Saba by Nansubuga Nagadya Isdahl

Sisters Siba and Saba were always losing things.









Sleep Well, Siba and Saba by Nansubuga Nagadya Isdahl